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MBL Quiz 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aerotolerance | ability or inability to live in the presence of O2 |
| What does autoclaving do to medium? | Removes free O2, diffuses back in when cooled creating an O2 concentration gradient |
| Obligate aerobes | Need Oxygen to survive, grow at top where O2 plentiful |
| facultative anaerobe | Does not need O2 but will use it if present, grows throughout |
| aerotolerant anaerobe | grows with or without O2, ferments when O2 present-does not use |
| microaerophile | requires O2 at levels below atmospheric content, grow in middle |
| capnophile | survies only if CO2 levels are elevated, requires reduced O2 |
| obligate anaerobes | grow in lower region depending on how deep O2 diffused, live in O2 free environment, O2 lethal |